When the Jets had just a four-day turnaround between the New England Patriots loss and the Denver Broncos game, they found one positive: less time to dwell on their defeat at the hands of their hated division rivals.

But after a devastating 17-13 loss to Denver, the converse is true. The Jets have a 10-day layoff until they play again, ample time to stew.

“You wish you played this Sunday again,” coach Rex Ryan said Thursday night.

The Jets will instead use their extra time to analyze their mistakes and “change a few things,” Ryan said. What happened in their loss Thursday night? Here are 10 things that warrant a second look:

1. Tim Tebow’s game-winning TD

We’ll start here, the key play of the game. The Broncos were in a three-receiver set on third-and-4 from the Jets’ 20, and the Jets matched with their nickel personnel. The Jets’ call was an all-out pressure, in which they appeared to send eight rushers with no safeties deep. Tebow said it was the second time in the game the Jets sent all-out pressure. The Broncos QB didn’t want to throw up a jump ball to one of his receivers, because the defensive backs were playing so far off. He keyed in on S Eric Smith. Tebow noticed Smith was “hugged tight” on the left side and figured the Jets were expecting the QB to be in the pocket. He counted on the tackle and tight end to block Smith and “jab-stepped” to the outside, knowing all he had to do was out-run Smith to the edge. It worked. Smith tried to get a piece of Tebow a few yards out, but he made it to the end zone with 58 seconds left. Should Smith have played wider? Ryan called it a “tough assignment.” What about the all-out pressure call, when the Jets were expecting run? “Hindsight being 20-20, obviously, we would’ve done something, anything but that,” Ryan said. What did the Jets hope to accomplish with that call? “A sack,” Smith said, adding: “We just play what’s called.” A very curious decision, and one that cost them the game. Tebow powered the Broncos’ final 95-yard drive, netting 57 of his 68 rushing yards on that possession alone.

2. Mark Sanchez’s inconsistency

For one stretch spanning the end of the second quarter and the start of the third, Sanchez completed 11 straight passes. But his final line was 24-of-40 for 252 yards, no touchdowns and an interception — showing his inconsistency. He made some excellent throws, like the 25-yard fourth-down pass to WR Patrick Turner at the end of the game, in a very tight window. But he threw a costly pick-six and appeared to frustrate offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer with his time management at the end of the first half — the exact same mistakes he made last week. Instead of getting to the line more quickly and spiking the ball after a first down on their final drive of the half, he saw that TE Dustin Keller was uncovered and threw to him. But veteran CB Champ Bailey sniffed out the play and Keller did not advance, leaving the Jets with a near-impossible 61-yard FG try. After the game, WR Santonio Holmes (4 catches for 39 yards) said one challenge to get him more involved the passing game was that the Broncos used a safety over top of him and counted on Bailey underneath to take away the quick game.

3. Von Miller

The rookie linebacker was a force for the Broncos. He led the team with 10 tackles, three for a loss, and recorded 1.5 sacks. Miller made a key play in the second quarter to tip a pass intended for Holmes, who had Bailey beat and would have scored a touchdown (the Jets settled for a 21-yard field goal that drive). But Miller also made a pair of questionable hits on QB Mark Sanchez that could draw a fine from the league, though neither was flagged. Miller came in late on Sanchez in the end zone during the second quarter, lowering his head and knocking him to the ground after the quarterback had already released the ball. Late in the third quarter, Miller crashed into Sanchez from behind, again leading with his helmet. Sanchez was bent over in pain afterward but shook out his throwing arm on the sideline and didn’t miss any time. For context, Ravens DT Haloti Ngata was fined $15,000 for lowering his head on a strip-sack of Sanchez in Week 4.

4. Pass protection

Ryan called the Jets’ pass protection “inconsistent.” “Sometimes, it’s really good,” he said. “Sometimes, it’s really bad.” Sanchez was sacked three times and hit seven at Denver. Miller and DE Elvis Dumervil beat tackles Wayne Hunter and D’Brickashaw Ferguson to end the Jets’ first drive with a 6-yard sack. Dumervil beat TE Matthew Mulligan, who has struggled at times in pass protection, for another sack in the fourth quarter, and Miller used an inside spin move to beat Hunter for a 9-yard sack on the Jets’ last-ditch drive. Ryan defended Hunter, saying he had a tough draw in Miller and was successful 90 percent of the time. But the coach said as the staff looks to make changes, they will examine their protections and find ways to give Sanchez more time.

For 54 minutes, the Jets had the Broncos’ unorthodox option attack bottled up. Their approach was to use run-stoppers up front. Jamaal Westerman, a pass-rushing OLB, played only about 11 snaps, while Garrett McIntyre started and played the majority of the game. Speed-rusher Aaron Maybin did not play any snaps on defense. LB Bart Scott, who frequently subbed out in six and seven-DB packages against the Patriots last week, was in for about 80 percent of the snaps this week and made several plays including a fumble recovery. The Jets only needed their nickel grouping on 20 of 56 plays, and 10 of those came as Denver used more receivers on their final drive. Even in defeat, Ryan praised his front three — Sione Pouha, Mike DeVito and Muhammad Wilkerson — for dominating the inside running game. “That’s the best our front three has played since I’ve been here,” Ryan said.

6. Jets’ final two-minute drive

The Jets had 58 seconds to piece together a touchdown drive to win the game. They did not succeed. They started by using Antonio Cromartie, their wild-card kick returner, to return Denver’s kickoff. He only made it as far as the Jets’ 14-yard line, leaving his team 86 yards to travel for the win. The best play of the drive was Sanchez’s 25-yard completion to Turner on fourth-and-19, after being sacked by Miller on third down, to keep their hopes alive. WR Eron Riley saw his first two snaps of the season on this drive, the Jets wanting to use his size and speed. After a 23-yard completion to Joe McKnight, the Jets spiked the ball and had seven seconds for their final play. They inserted Cromartie as a receiver on Sanchez’s Hail Mary, which fell incomplete.

7. The backfield line-up

After RB Shonn Greene left with bruised ribs in the first quarter, and with LaDainian Tomlinson inactive with a knee sprain, the Jets were left with McKnight and rookie Bilal Powell in the backfield. McKnight did an excellent job with screen passes and led the team with six catches for 62 yards. But Ryan was hoping to see more production on the ground, as the Jets averaged 3.0 yards per carry. Powell, in his first NFL game, netted just 11 yards on seven carries. Powell played 17 snaps (McKnight played 46), and nine of those were either third-down or goal-line plays.

8. Timeouts on the Broncos’ 95-yard drive

The Jets had two timeouts remaining when the Broncos got the ball with 5:54 left in the game. They didn’t use any on that drive, which took 4:56 off the clock. Ryan said his plan was if they stopped Denver on third-and-4, which he expected to, he would have used the time out after the play as the Broncos lined up to kick a tying field goal. Then, the Jets would have gotten the ball back with one time out, needing just a field goal to win. Of course, the Broncos wound up scoring the winning touchdown instead. Ryan said he didn’t use the second time out earlier, because if the Broncos had gotten a first down but not a score on third-and-4, he didn’t want them to have extra time to get into the end zone.

9. Botched snap

A second-quarter drive for the Jets ended after a botched snap on third down. It sailed high and wide, and Sanchez raced back 22 yards to recover it. Sanchez took the blame, saying he is athletic enough to jump up and catch the snap. McKnight, who was in the backfield with Sanchez, said it was supposed to be a direct snap to him, but “we couldn’t get to it.”

10. Special-teams miscues

This unit, which was one of the Jets’ strengths early in the season, has had a rough few weeks. McKnight fumbled his second return in two weeks, when LB Wesley Woodyard stripped the ball from him on a third-quarter kickoff. Denver didn’t score off the turnover, but it was costly nonetheless: it was the only kickoff McKnight got to return in the thin air, and he had advanced it all the way to the Jets’ 41-yard line. The Jets also had a coverage gaffe, when one player (it appeared to be Turner) whiffed on KR Cassius Vaughn inside of the 10-yard line, allowing Vaughn to run 67 yards to the Jets’ 39 before DB Donald Strickland chased him down. They were bailed out by a defensive stand. Nick Folk also missed a makeable 52-yard FG and a long-shot 61-yard field goal, and T.J. Conley’s shanked 13-yard punt set up a 37-yard field goal for the Broncos. Coordinator Mike Westhoff already indicated he wasn’t completely satisfied with Conley, so it will be interesting to see if they look at other punters.